FM> I don't think it's useless, for reasons which are in other
 FM> messages.

 BL>   It's worse than useless. It allows ordinary users to stuff those
 BL> with SOT/EOT readers. All you have to do is add a false EOT: in your
 BL> message, and those with SOT/EOT reraders won't see anything past it.
 BL> Paul's reader will sayu: "O yes! That's the end of text,"
and truncate
 BL> the message. 

did you ever think though bob, that the world ain't all readers. the
software that actually moves the messages around would be a lot simpler if
sot/eot was mandatary. since that isn't really likely at this stage of
fido's existance, it should also be noted that that software would handle
any sot/eot messages in the normal message stream faster by simply ignoring
anything between sot and eot.

                         keith
@EOT:

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